Insted of just commenting how important it is, lets make it more robust and add a lockdep_assert_held() call.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 347da3f4f5d3..6a0c2591e57e 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1637,6 +1637,8 @@ static __poll_t ep_send_events_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, struct list_head *head * Items cannot vanish during the loop because ep_scan_ready_list() is * holding "mtx" during this call. */ + lockdep_assert_held(&ep->mtx); + list_for_each_entry_safe(epi, tmp, head, rdllink) { if (esed->res >= esed->maxevents) break; -- 2.16.4
